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Translators like some translation companies and don’t like others. It is easy to sum-up what they like. Their favorite company should:

  • Provide project support (reference materials, electronic dictionaries, etc.)
  • Use their services frequently (a reliable source of work)
  • Pay on time (major problem with some translation companies)

Our translators and editors love to work for us. We have negotiated special rates with them and are happy to pass the savings to you.

Below is a selection of the most common languages US companies translate.

The Arabic Language

Arabic (العربية al-ʻarabīyah) is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD. This includes both the literary language and the spoken Arabic varieties.

The literary language is called Modern Standard Arabic or Literary Arabic. It is currently the only official form of Arabic, used in most written documents as well as in formal spoken occasions, such as lectures and news broadcasts. In 1912, Moroccan Arabic was official in Morocco for some time, before Morocco joined the Arab League. Ever since, there is only one standard Arabic language, making translation for this vast part of the world market easier.

The spoken Arabic varieties are spoken in a wide arc of territory stretching across the Middle East and North Africa.

Arabic languages are Central Semitic languages, most closely related to Hebrew, Aramaic, Ugaritic and Phoenician. The standardized written Arabic is distinct from and more conservative than all of the spoken varieties, and the two exist in a state known as diglossia, used side-by-side for different societal functions.

Some of the spoken varieties are mutually unintelligible, and the varieties as a whole constitute a sociolinguistic language. This means that on purely linguistic grounds they would likely be considered to constitute more than one language, but are commonly grouped together as a single language for political and/or ethnic reasons. If considered multiple languages, it is unclear how many languages there would be, as the spoken varieties form a dialect chain with no clear boundaries. If Arabic is considered a single language, it may be spoken by as many as 280 million first language speakers, making it one of the half dozen most populous languages in the world. If considered separate languages, the most-spoken variety would most likely be Egyptian Arabic, with 95 million native speakers — still greater than any other Semitic language.

The modern written language (Modern Standard Arabic) is derived from the language of the Quran (known as Classical Arabic or Quranic Arabic). It is widely taught in schools, universities, and used to varying degrees in workplaces, government and the media. The two formal varieties are grouped together as Literary Arabic, which is the official language of 26 states and the liturgical language of Islam. Modern Standard Arabic largely follows the grammatical standards of Quranic Arabic and uses much of the same vocabulary. However, it has discarded some grammatical constructions and vocabulary that no longer have any counterpoint in the spoken varieties, and adopted certain new constructions and vocabulary from the spoken varieties. Much of the new vocabulary is used to denote concepts that have arisen in the post-Quranic era, especially in modern times.

Arabic is the only surviving member of the Old North Arabian dialect group, attested in Pre-Islamic Arabic inscriptions dating back to the 4th century. Arabic is written with the Arabic alphabet, which is an Abjad script, and is written from right-to-left. Although, the spoken varieties are often written in ASCII Latin with no standardized forms.

Arabic has lent many words to other languages of the Islamic world, like Persian, Turkish, Bosnian, Kazakh, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, Malay and Hausa. During the Middle Ages, Literary Arabic was a major vehicle of culture in Europe, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. As a result, many European languages have also borrowed many words from it. Arabic influence, both in vocabulary and grammar, is seen in Romance languages, particularly Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan and Sicilian, owing to both the proximity of European and Arab civilizations and 700 years of Muslim (Moorish) rule in some parts of the Iberian Peninsula referred to as Al-Andalus.

Arabic has also borrowed words from many languages, including Hebrew, Greek, Persian and Syrian in early centuries, Turkish in medieval times and contemporary European languages in modern times, mostly from English and French.

Arabic Translation

One Planet provides professional translation services to and from all languages including Arabic. Most of our customers need translation into Arabic along with other languages. While there is only one standard written Arabic, the consistency across languages has become important to technology driven companies. Ability to provide technical translation services into wide variety of languages is rare in the Translation Industry where translation services are usually limited to only major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America.

Arabic Translator Certification

Given the strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards that companies in compliance-intensive industries face on a regular basis, One Planet has developed its own translator testing, screening and qualification program. This demanding system ensures that Arabic linguists:

  • are professional translators and editors who are working in their native Arabic language
  • possess significant experience in their field of specialization and are subject-matter experts;
  • pass a rigorous screening and testing process;
  • receive feedback on the quality of their work on a continuing basis.

Importantly, One Planet Corporation qualifies fewer than two out of ten applicants.

Arabic Translator Specialization

We work with highly technical, legal, medical, and scientific documents, websites, patents, and, software, and pharmaceutical texts. Our highly-adept staff will be happy to custom-tailor a translation program to help you meet your strategic globalization goals.

Our Arabic translators and editors specialize in:

  • Complex technologies
  • Computer software and firmware
  • Multilingual websites
  • Legal translation and patent related search and analysis
  • Financial reports and related documentation
  • Medical, scientific and pharmaceutical documents

We stand ready to assist you with:

  • Multilingual website review, analysis and implementation
  • Audit of software and firmware readiness for global deployment
  • E-commerce support
  • Certified translations
  • Summary of large corpora of foreign language documentation

The Chinese

The Chinese language (汉语/漢語 Hànyǔ) is a language or language family consisting of varieties which are mutually intelligible to varying degree. Originally the indigenous languages spoken by the Han Chinese in China, it forms one of the branches of Sino-Tibetan family of languages. About one-fifth of the world’s population, or over one billion people, speak some variety of Chinese as their native language. Internal divisions of Chinese are usually perceived by their native speakers as dialects of a single Chinese language, rather than separate languages, although this identification is considered inappropriate by some linguists and sinologists.

Chinese is distinguished by its high level of internal diversity, although all varieties of Chinese are tonal and analytic. There are between 7 and 13 main regional groups of Chinese (depending on classification scheme), of which the most spoken, by far, is Mandarin (about 850 million), followed by Wu (90 million), Cantonese (Yue) (70 million) and Min (50 million). Most of these groups are mutually unintelligible, although some, like Xiang and the Southwest Mandarin dialects, may share common terms and some degree of intelligibility.

Standard Chinese (Putonghua) is a standardized form of spoken Chinese based on the Beijing dialect of Mandarin Chinese, referred to as 官话/官話 Guānhuà in Chinese. Mandarin Chinese history can be dated back to the 19th century, particularly by the upper classes and ministers in Beijing. Standard Chinese is the official language of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC, also known as Taiwan), as well as one of four official languages of Singapore. It is one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Of the other varieties of Chinese, Cantonese is influential in Guangdong Province and Cantonese-speaking overseas communities, and remains one of the official languages of Hong Kong (together with English) and of Macau (together with Portuguese). Min Nan, part of the Min language group, is widely spoken in southern Fujian, in neighboring Taiwan (where it is known as Taiwanese or Hoklo) and in Southeast Asia (known as Hokkien in Philippines, Singapore and Malaysia). There are also sizeable Hakka and Shanghainese diaspora, for example in Taiwan, where most Hakka communities maintain diglossia by being conversant in Taiwanese and Standard Chinese.

Chinese characters have developed over thousands of years, some characters requiring as many as thirty-three separate strokes. In the 1950s, a Character Reform Committee in the PRC systematically simplified the written language in order to encourage literacy. These ensuing reforms reduced the number of character strokes by an average of one half. This simplified character set (简体, jiǎntǐ) appears in all print media in Mainland China and Singapore. However, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and various diasporic Chinese communities still use the traditional, more complex character set (繁體, fántǐ).

Although the Chinese spoken in Hong Kong is Cantonese, they write in the same way as in standard Chinese (Mandarin), albeit in traditional (and not simplified) characters. When it is read aloud, however, the pronunciation is Cantonese, so it can only be understood by someone familiar with Cantonese.

Chinese Translation

One Planet provides professional translation services to and from all languages including Chinese. Most of our customers need translation into Chinese along with other languages. Consistency across languages has become important to technology driven companies. Ability to provide technical translation services into wide variety of languages is rare in the Translation Industry where translation services are usually limited to only major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Check out our Language Translation page for a complete list of languages we translate.

Chinese Translator Certification

Given the strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards that companies in compliance-intensive industries face on a regular basis, One Planet has developed its own translator testing, screening and qualification program. This demanding system ensures that Chinese linguists:

  • are professional translators and editors who are working in their native Chinese language
  • possess significant experience in their field of specialization and are subject-matter experts;
  • pass a rigorous screening and testing process;
  • receive feedback on the quality of their work on a continuing basis.

Importantly, One Planet Corporation qualifies fewer than two out of ten applicants.

Chinese Translator Specialization

We work with highly technical, legal, medical, and scientific documents, websites, patents, and, software, and pharmaceutical texts. Our highly-adept staff will be happy to custom-tailor a translation program to help you meet your strategic globalization goals.

Our chinese translators and editors specialize in:

  • Complex technologies
  • Computer software and firmware
  • Multilingual websites
  • Legal translation and patent related search and analysis
  • Financial reports and related documentation
  • Medical, scientific and pharmaceutical documents

We stand ready to assist you with:

  • Multilingual website review, analysis and implementation
  • Audit of software and firmware readiness for global deployment
  • E-commerce support
  • Certified translations
  • Summary of large corpora of foreign language documentation

French Language

French is the official language in 29 countries, most of which are members of lafrancophonie, the community of French-speaking countries. It is spoken as a first language in France, southern Belgium, western Switzerland, Monaco, certain parts of Canada and the United States, and by various communities elsewhere. As of 2015, 40% of the francophone population (including L2 and partial speakers) is in Europe, 35% in sub-Saharan Africa, 15% in North Africa and the Middle East, 8% in the Americas, and 1% in Asia and Oceania

French is the fourth most widely spoken mother tongue in the European Union. 1/5 of non-Francophone Europeans speak French. As a result of French and Belgian colonialism from the 17th and 18th century onward, French was introduced to new territories in the Americas, Africa and Asia. Most second-language speakers reside in Francophone Africa, in particular Gabon, Algeria, Mauritius, Senegal and Ivory Coast. In 2015, French was estimated to have 77 to 110 million native speakers, and 190 million secondary speakers. Approximately 270 million people are able to speak the language. According to a demographic projection led by the Université Laval and the Réseau Démographie de l’Agence universitaire de la francophonie, total French speakers will number approximately 500 million people in 2025 and 650 million people by 2050. The Organisation internationale de la Francophonie estimates 700 million by 2050, 80% of whom will be in Africa.

French has a long history as an international language of commerce, diplomacy, literature, and scientific standards and is an official language of many international organizations including the United Nations, the European Union, NATO, the WTO, the International Olympic Committee, and the ICRC. In 2011, Bloomberg Businessweek ranked French the third most useful language for business, after English and Mandarin Chinese.

French Translation

French translation may take as much as 30% more space than English. This is an important consideration for tables, graphs and other limited space situations.

One Planet provides professional translation services to and from all languages including French. Most of our customers need translation into French along with other languages. Consistency across languages has become important to technology driven companies. Ability to provide technical translation services into wide variety of languages is rare in the Translation Industry where translation services are usually limited to only major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Check out our Language Translation page for a complete list of languages we translate.

French Translator Certification

Given the strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards that companies in compliance-intensive industries face on a regular basis, One Planet has developed its own translator testing, screening and qualification program. This demanding system ensures that French linguists:

  • are professional translators and editors who are working in their native French language
  • possess significant experience in their field of specialization and are subject-matter experts;
  • pass a rigorous screening and testing process;
  • receive feedback on the quality of their work on a continuing basis.

Importantly, One Planet Corporation qualifies fewer than two out of ten applicants.

French Translator Specialization

We work with highly technical, legal, medical, and scientific documents, websites, patents, and, software, and pharmaceutical texts. Our highly-adept staff will be happy to custom-tailor a translation program to help you meet your strategic globalization goals.

Our french translators and editors specialize in:

  • Complex technologies
  • Computer software and firmware
  • Multilingual websites
  • Legal translation and patent related search and analysis
  • Financial reports and related documentation
  • Medical, scientific and pharmaceutical documents

We stand ready to assist you with:

  • Multilingual website review, analysis and implementation
  • Audit of software and firmware readiness for global deployment
  • E-commerce support
  • Certified translations
  • Summary of large corpora of foreign language documentation

German Language

German (Deutsch) is a West Germanic language related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 100 – 108 million native speakers, German is one of the world’s major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union.

Most German vocabulary is derived from the Germanic branch of the Indo-European language family. Significant minorities of words are derived from Latin and Greek, with a smaller amount from German and English.

German is written using the Latin alphabet. In addition to the 26 standard letters, German has three vowels with umlauts (Ä/ä, Ö/ö, and Ü/ü) and the letter ß.

German Translation

German translation may take as much as 10% more space than English. This is an important consideration for tables, graphs and other limited space situations.

Another significant space consideration for German translation is the fact that German grammar allows words to be strung together to form one lengthy term that English and other languages usually break up into several words. A classic long German word is Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän, which in English becomes four words: “Danube steamship company captain.” While Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitän has a mere 41 letters (42 with German spelling reform, which adds another f to the “schifffahrt” element), some longest-word candidates run as long as 80 characters.

One Planet provides professional translation services to and from all languages including German. Most of our customers need translation into German along with other languages. Consistency across languages has become important to technology driven companies. Ability to provide technical translation services into wide variety of languages is rare in the Translation Industry where translation services are usually limited to only major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Check out our Language Translation page for a complete list of languages we translate.

German Translator Certification

Given the strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards that companies in compliance-intensive industries face on a regular basis, One Planet has developed its own translator testing, screening and qualification program. This demanding system ensures that German linguists:

  • are professional translators and editors who are working in their native German language
  • possess significant experience in their field of specialization and are subject-matter experts;
  • pass a rigorous screening and testing process;
  • receive feedback on the quality of their work on a continuing basis.

Importantly, One Planet Corporation qualifies fewer than two out of ten applicants.

German Translator Specialization

We work with highly technical, legal, medical, and scientific documents, websites, patents, and, software, and pharmaceutical texts. Our highly-adept staff will be happy to custom-tailor a translation program to help you meet your strategic globalization goals.

Our German translators and editors specialize in:

  • Complex technologies
  • Computer software and firmware
  • Multilingual websites
  • Legal translation and patent related search and analysis
  • Financial reports and related documentation
  • Medical, scientific and pharmaceutical documents

We stand ready to assist you with:

  • Multilingual website review, analysis and implementation
  • Audit of software and firmware readiness for global deployment
  • E-commerce support
  • Certified translations
  • Summary of large corpora of foreign language documentation

Italian

Italian (Italiano) is a Romance language spoken mainly in Europe: Italy, Switzerland, San Marino, Vatican City, by minorities in Malta, Monaco, Croatia, Slovenia, France, Libya, Eritrea, and Somalia, and by immigrant communities in the Americas and Australia. Many speakers are native bilinguals of both standardized Italian and other regional languages.

According to the Bologna statistics of the European Union, Italian is spoken as a mother tongue by 65 million people in the EU (13% of the EU population), mainly in Italy, and as a second language by 14 million (3%). Including the Italian speakers in non-EU European countries (such as Switzerland and Albania) and on other continents, the total number of speakers is more than 85 million.

In Switzerland, Italian is one of four official languages; it is studied and learned in all the confederation schools and spoken, as mother tongue, in the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Grigioni and by the Italian immigrants that are present in large numbers in German- and Italian-speaking cantons. It is also the official language of San Marino, as well as the primary language of Vatican City. It is co-official in Slovenian Istria and in part of the Istria County in Croatia. The Italian language adopted by the state after the unification of Italy is based on the Tuscan, which beforehand was a language spoken mostly by the upper class of Florentine society. Its development was also influenced by other Italian languages and by the Germanic languages of the post-Roman invaders.

Italian derives from Latin. Unlike most other Romance languages, Italian retains Latin’s contrast between short and long consonants. As in most Romance languages, stress is distinctive. In particular, among the Romance languages, Italian is the closest to Latin in terms of vocabulary.

Italian Translation

Italian translation may take as much as 30% more space than English. This is an important consideration for tables, graphs and other limited space situations.

One Planet provides professional translation services to and from all languages including Italian. Most of our customers need translation into Italian along with other languages. Consistency across languages has become important to technology driven companies. Ability to provide technical translation services into wide variety of languages is rare in the Translation Industry where translation services are usually limited to only major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Check out our Language Translation page for a complete list of languages we translate.

Italian Translator Certification

Given the strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards that companies in compliance-intensive industries face on a regular basis, One Planet has developed its own translator testing, screening and qualification program. This demanding system ensures that Italian linguists:

  • are professional translators and editors who are working in their native Italian language
  • possess significant experience in their field of specialization and are subject-matter experts;
  • pass a rigorous screening and testing process;
  • receive feedback on the quality of their work on a continuing basis.

Importantly, One Planet Corporation qualifies fewer than two out of ten applicants.

Italian Translator Specialization

We work with highly technical, legal, medical, and scientific documents, websites, patents, and, software, and pharmaceutical texts. Our highly-adept staff will be happy to custom-tailor a translation program to help you meet your strategic globalization goals.

Our Italian translators and editors specialize in:

  • Complex technologies
  • Computer software and firmware
  • Multilingual websites
  • Legal translation and patent related search and analysis
  • Financial reports and related documentation
  • Medical, scientific and pharmaceutical documents

We stand ready to assist you with:

  • Multilingual website review, analysis and implementation
  • Audit of software and firmware readiness for global deployment
  • E-commerce support
  • Certified translations
  • Summary of large corpora of foreign language documentation

Japanese

Japanese (日本語 Nihongo) is a language spoken by over 120 million people in Japan and in Japanese emigrant communities. It is a member of the Japanese-Ryukyuan language family.

Japanese has a relatively small sound inventory, and a lexically significant pitch-accent system. It is distinguished by a complex system of honorifics reflecting the nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and persons mentioned in conversation. Japanese vowels are pure.

The Japanese language is written with a combination of three scripts: Chinese characters called kanji (漢字), and scripts made of modified Chinese characters, Hiragana (ひらがな or 平仮名) and Katakana (カタカナ). The Latin script is also often used in modern Japanese, especially for company names and logos, advertising, Romanization of Japanese characters, and when entering Japanese text into a computer. Arabic numerals are generally used for numbers, but traditional Sino-Japanese numerals are also commonplace.

Although Japanese is written using Chinese characters, and has historically imported many words of Chinese origin, the two languages are not considered to have a genealogical relationship.

Japanese Translation

One Planet provides professional translation services to and from all languages including Japanese. Most of our customers need translation into Japanese along with other languages. Consistency across languages has become important to technology driven companies. Ability to provide technical translation services into wide variety of languages is rare in the Translation Industry where translation services are usually limited to only major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Check out our Language Translation page for a complete list of languages we translate.

Japanese Translator Certification

Given the strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards that companies in compliance-intensive industries face on a regular basis, One Planet has developed its own translator testing, screening and qualification program. This demanding system ensures that Japanese linguists:

  • are professional translators and editors who are working in their native Japanese language
  • possess significant experience in their field of specialization and are subject-matter experts;
  • pass a rigorous screening and testing process;
  • receive feedback on the quality of their work on a continuing basis.

Importantly, One Planet Corporation qualifies fewer than two out of ten applicants.

Japanese Translator Specialization

We work with highly technical, legal, medical, and scientific documents, websites, patents, and, software, and pharmaceutical texts. Our highly-adept staff will be happy to custom-tailor a translation program to help you meet your strategic globalization goals.

Our Japanese translators and editors specialize in:

  • Complex technologies
  • Computer software and firmware
  • Multilingual websites
  • Legal translation and patent related search and analysis
  • Financial reports and related documentation
  • Medical, scientific and pharmaceutical documents

We stand ready to assist you with:

  • Multilingual website review, analysis and implementation
  • Audit of software and firmware readiness for global deployment
  • E-commerce support
  • Certified translations
  • Summary of large corpora of foreign language documentation

Portuguese

Portuguese (Português) is a Romance language. It is the official language of Portugal, Brazil, Mozambique, Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé and Príncipe. Portuguese has co-official status (alongside the indigenous language) in Macau, East Timor in South East Asia and in Equatorial Guinea in Central Africa; Portuguese speakers are also found in Goa, Daman and Diu in India.

With a total of 236 million speakers, Portuguese is the 6th most spoken language in the world, the 3rd most spoken language in the Western Hemisphere, and the most spoken language in the Southern Hemisphere.

Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes once called Portuguese “the sweet language” and Spanish playwright Lope de Vega referred to it as “sweet”, while the Brazilian writer Olavo Bilac poetically described it as a última flor do Lácio, inculta e bela (the last flower of Latium, wild and beautiful). Portuguese is also termed “the language of Camões”, after one of Portugal’s greatest literary figures, Luís Vaz de Camões.

In March 2006, the Museum of the Portuguese Language, an interactive museum about the Portuguese language, was founded in São Paulo, Brazil, the city with the greatest number of Portuguese-language speakers in the world.

Portuguese Translation

Portuguese translation may take as much as 30% more space than English. This is an important consideration for tables, graphs and other limited space situations.

Are there big differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese? In a word: Yes. The differences between the two Portuguese variations are many, and very significant. There are differences in application of technical terminology and even in the use of pronouns (For example a phrase “to do it”. While a Portuguese would write “para o fazer”, a Brazilian would write “para fazê-lo”). The significant linguistic differences combined with the considerations of national pride and autonomy makes it imperative to translate into specific variation of Portuguese.

One Planet provides professional translation services to and from all languages including Portuguese. Most of our customers need translation into Portuguese along with other languages. Consistency across languages has become important to technology driven companies. Ability to provide technical translation services into wide variety of languages is rare in the Translation Industry where translation services are usually limited to only major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Check out our Language Translation page for a complete list of languages we translate.

Portuguese Translator Certification

Given the strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards that companies in compliance-intensive industries face on a regular basis, One Planet has developed its own translator testing, screening and qualification program. This demanding system ensures that Portuguese linguists:

  • are professional translators and editors who are working in their native Portuguese language
  • possess significant experience in their field of specialization and are subject-matter experts;
  • pass a rigorous screening and testing process;
  • receive feedback on the quality of their work on a continuing basis.

Importantly, One Planet Corporation qualifies fewer than two out of ten applicants.

Portuguese Translator Specialization

We work with highly technical, legal, medical, and scientific documents, websites, patents, and, software, and pharmaceutical texts. Our highly-adept staff will be happy to custom-tailor a translation program to help you meet your strategic globalization goals.

Our Portuguese translators and editors specialize in:

  • Complex technologies
  • Computer software and firmware
  • Multilingual websites
  • Legal translation and patent related search and analysis
  • Financial reports and related documentation
  • Medical, scientific and pharmaceutical documents

We stand ready to assist you with:

  • Multilingual website review, analysis and implementation
  • Audit of software and firmware readiness for global deployment
  • E-commerce support
  • Certified translations
  • Summary of large corpora of foreign language documentation

Russian

Russian (ру́сский язы́к, russkiy yazyk) is a Slavic language spoken primarily in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Moldova, Latvia, Estonia, and to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics of the USSR. Russian belongs to the family of Indo-European languages and is one of three living members of the East Slavic languages. Written examples of Old East Slavonic are attested from the 10th century onwards.

It is the most geographically widespread language of Eurasia and the most widely spoken of the Slavic languages. It is also the largest native language in Europe, with 144 million native speakers in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Russian is the 8th most spoken language in the world by number of native speakers and the 4th by total number of speakers. The language is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

Russian distinguishes between consonant phonemes with palatal secondary articulation and those without, the so-called soft and hard sounds. This distinction is found between pairs of almost all consonants and is one of the most distinguishing features of the language. Another important aspect is the reduction of unstressed vowels, which is somewhat similar to that of English. Stress, which is unpredictable, is not normally indicated orthographically though an optional acute accent (знак ударения, znak udareniya) may be used to mark stress (such as to distinguish between homographic words, for example замо́к (meaning lock) and за́мок (meaning castle), or to indicate the proper pronunciation of uncommon words or names.

Russian Translation

Russian translation may take as much as 50% more space than English. This is an important consideration for tables, graphs and other limited space situations.

One Planet provides professional translation services to and from all languages including Russian. Most of our customers need translation into German along with other languages. Consistency across languages has become important to technology driven companies. Ability to provide technical translation services into wide variety of languages is rare in the Translation Industry where translation services are usually limited to only major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Check out our Language Translation page for a complete list of languages we translate.

Russian Translator Certification

Given the strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards that companies in compliance-intensive industries face on a regular basis, One Planet has developed its own translator testing, screening and qualification program. This demanding system ensures that Russian linguists:

  • are professional translators and editors who are working in their native Russian language
  • possess significant experience in their field of specialization and are subject-matter experts;
  • pass a rigorous screening and testing process;
  • receive feedback on the quality of their work on a continuing basis.

Importantly, One Planet Corporation qualifies fewer than two out of ten applicants.

Russian Translator Specialization

We work with highly technical, legal, medical, and scientific documents, websites, patents, and, software, and pharmaceutical texts. Our highly-adept staff will be happy to custom-tailor a translation program to help you meet your strategic globalization goals.

Our Russian translators and editors specialize in:

  • Complex technologies
  • Computer software and firmware
  • Multilingual websites
  • Legal translation and patent related search and analysis
  • Financial reports and related documentation
  • Medical, scientific and pharmaceutical documents

We stand ready to assist you with:

  • Multilingual website review, analysis and implementation
  • Audit of software and firmware readiness for global deployment
  • E-commerce support
  • Certified translations
  • Summary of large corpora of foreign language documentation

The Spanish Language

Spanish (español) is a Romance language that originated in Spain and now has more native speakers worldwide than any language other than Mandarin Chinese. It is also called Castilian after the particular region of Spain, Castile, where it originated. In 1999 there were, according to Ethnologue, 358 million people speaking Spanish as a native language and a total of 417 million speakers worldwide. Currently these figures are between 400 and 500 million people respectively. Mexico contains the largest population of Spanish speakers. Spanish is one of the six official languages of the United Nations, and is used as an official language by the European Union and Mercosur.

Spanish is a part of the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several dialects of spoken Latin in central-northern Iberia around the ninth century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile (present northern Spain) into central and southern Iberia during the later Middle Ages. Early in its history, the Spanish vocabulary was enriched by its contact with Basque and Arabic, and the language continues to adopt foreign words from a variety of other languages, as well as developing new words. Spanish was taken most notably to the Americas as well as to Africa and Asia-Pacific with the expansion of the Spanish Empire between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries, where it became the most important language for government and trade.

Spanish is the most popular second language learned by native speakers of American English. In many other countries as well, in the 21st century, the learning of Spanish as a foreign language has grown significantly. Spanish is the third most commonly used language on the Internet after English and Mandarin. Since the early 21st century, it has arguably superseded French in becoming the second most studied language and second language in international communication, after English, in the world.

Spanish Translation

Spanish translation may take as much as 30% more space than English. This is an important consideration for tables, graphs and other limited space situations.

There are significant differences in vocabulary among regional varieties of Spanish, particularly in the domains of technology. Many Latin American varieties show considerable lexical influence from Native American languages. Each Spanish speaking country insists on its own linguistic identity as a matter of their sovereignty. However, based on our experience, it is sufficient to translate into European or Castilian Spanish, Mexican and Latin American Spanish.

One Planet provides professional translation services to and from all languages including Spanish. Most of our customers need translation into Spanish along with other languages. Consistency across languages has become important to technology driven companies. Ability to provide technical translation services into wide variety of languages is rare in the Translation Industry where translation services are usually limited to only major languages of Europe, Asia and Latin America. Check out our Language Translation page for a complete list of languages we translate.

Spanish Translator Certification

Given the strict regulatory requirements and high quality standards that companies in compliance-intensive industries face on a regular basis, One Planet has developed its own translator testing, screening and qualification program. This demanding system ensures that Spanish linguists:

  • are professional translators and editors who are working in their native Spanish language
  • possess significant experience in their field of specialization and are subject-matter experts;
  • pass a rigorous screening and testing process;
  • receive feedback on the quality of their work on a continuing basis.

Importantly, One Planet Corporation qualifies fewer than two out of ten applicants.

Spanish Translator Specialization

We work with highly technical, legal, medical, and scientific documents, websites, patents, and, software, and pharmaceutical texts. Our highly-adept staff will be happy to custom-tailor a translation program to help you meet your strategic globalization goals.

Our Spanish translators and editors specialize in:

  • Complex technologies
  • Computer software and firmware
  • Multilingual websites
  • Legal translation and patent related search and analysis
  • Financial reports and related documentation
  • Medical, scientific and pharmaceutical documents

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  • Multilingual website review, analysis and implementation
  • Audit of software and firmware readiness for global deployment
  • E-commerce support
  • Certified translations
  • Summary of large corpora of foreign language documentation